DIFFERENTIATED FAR-FIELD AND NEAR-FIELD ATTENTION GARNERING DEVICE AND SYSTEM

• US 20090133301A1
• Filed: 11/26/2007
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Altierre Corp.
• Original Assignee: Altierre Corp.
• Inventors: SAXENA, Sunit, Goel, Anurag
• Application Number:
  US11/945,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20090133301A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/30 in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information

Abstract

An attention garnering device, system and method are provided wherein the element has a display and at least one attention element that attracts a user to view the display of the element.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a housing;

a display panel on a front side of the housing that is capable of displaying at least one piece of information that is viewable when in front of the device;

one or more attention elements located on one or more sides of that housing that attract attention to the device and the display panel; and

a controller that controls the display panel and the one or more attention elements.

2. The device as in claim 1, wherein a portion of the housing is angled and at least one attention elements is located on the angled portion of the housing.

3. The device as in claim 1, wherein the housing is made of aluminum or plastic.

4. The device as in claim 1, wherein the display panel is a color display panel or a black and white display panel.

5. The device as in claim 1, wherein the controller controls a state of the one or more attention elements wherein the states are an on state, an off state or a flash state.

6. The device as in claim 5, wherein the controller controls the states of the one or more attention elements based on a programmed time schedule.

7. The device as in claim 5, wherein the controller controls the states of the one or more attention elements in response to a wired, optical fibre or wireless communication signal.

8. The device as in claim 1, wherein the one or more attention elements are replaceable.

9. The device as in claim 1 further comprising one or more lights on one or more of the sides of the housing.

10. The device as in claim 9, wherein the controller controls a state of the one or more lights wherein the states are an on state, an off state or a flash state.

11. The device as in claim 10, wherein the controller controls the state of the one or more lights based on a programmed time schedule.

12. The device as in claim 10, wherein the controller controls the states of the one or more lights based on a wired, optical fibre or wireless communication signal.

13. The device as in claim 1 further comprising a second display panel on the front of the housing.

14. A device comprising:

a housing having a back surface, a front surface having a display, and one or more side surfaces wherein the side surfaces are at an angle relative to the front surface wherein a relatively distant view of the housing includes at least one side surface so that a relatively distant viewer sees the at least one side surface and a relatively close viewer sees the display on the front surface.

15. The device of claim 14 further comprising a visual cue located on the at least one side surface that attracts attention for a relatively distant viewer.

16. The device as in claim 15, wherein the visual cue further comprises a blinking light, a change of character font or facing, a light emitter, a relatively high-contrast display, a varying color or intensity, a programmable or static message, a static image or an image including at least one changing feature or an image including movement or apparent movement.

17. The device as in claim 15, wherein the visual cue further comprises a colored surface, a lamp, a light-emitting diode, a colored material, a liquid crystal element, a lit surface, a programmable element, an active element or an element whose behavior is programmable via a central controller.

18. The device as in claim 15, wherein that visual cue is responsive to an external data source.

19. The device as in claim 14 further comprising a front visual cue located on at least a portion of the front surface wherein the visual cue is attractive of attention for that relatively close viewer.

20. The device as in claim 19, wherein the front visual cue further comprises a blinking light, a change of character font or facing, a light emitter, a relatively high-contrast display, a varying color or intensity, a programmable or static message, a static image or an image including at least one changing feature or an image including movement or apparent movement.

21. The device as in claim 19, wherein the front visual cue further comprises a colored surface, a lamp, a light-emitting diode, a colored material, a liquid crystal element, a lit surface, a programmable element, an active element or an element whose behavior is programmable via a central controller.

22. The device as in claim 19, wherein that front visual cue is responsive to an external data source.